Yardiella humphreysi Gray 1994

Ivan L. F. Magalhaes, 2016, On new or poorly known Australian Filistatidae spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae), including a study on the fine morphology of Wandella, Journal of Natural History 50 (29 - 30), pp. 1815-1858 : 42

Yardiella humphreysi Gray 1994

Yardiella humphreysi Gray 1994 , p. 59, figs. 6, 8, 10, 12, 20, 107, 116 – 124.

Male holotype from Cave C94, North-West Cape Peninsula, WA, 21°47' S, 114°10' E, 20/IX/1988, M. Gray & S. Eberhard, deposited in WAM, not examined. Male and female paratypes from the same locality (AM KS.21587, KS.30229, KS.30225, KS.30228, KS.21603), examined.

Note

This species so far has been recorded only from caves ( Gray 1994). I have examined a female from leaf litter samples taken from under a fig tree (WAM T48338), representing the first epigeal record of this species.

Distribution

North West Cape, Western Australia ( Figure 15 ).

Material examined

Australia. Western Australia: Cape Range area, Whitecrest Quarry lease, in litter under fig tree, Tullgreen funnel (114.07528°, −21.9975°, m), S.M. Eberhard, 25/VIII/1997, 2 ♀ 2 imm. ( WAM T48338); North West Cape Filistatic Cave C94 (114.06667°, −21.83333°), J.M. Waldock, 20/IX/1988, 1 ♀ ( WAM 24,043 (91/1793)*); photo by D. Elford, 11/10/1988, 1 ♀ ( WAM 24,044 (91/1794)*); (114.01667°, −22.05°, m), 25/V/1990, 1 ♀ ( WAM 24,054 (91/1804) *); 1 ♀ ( WAM 24,055 (91/1805)*); 1 imm. ( WAM 24,056 (91/1806)*); 1 imm. ( WAM 24,057 (91/1807)*); 1 imm. ( WAM 24058(91/1808)*); 1 imm. ( WAM 24,059 (91/1809)*); 1 imm. ( WAM 24060(91/1810)*); 1 imm. ( WAM 24,061 (91/1811)*); in webs on rock walls roof and floor boulders especially in entrance cavern (114.17°, −21.78°), S. Eberhard, 20/IX/1988, 3 ♀ (AM KS.21587*); 1 ♀ (AM KS.30229*); 1 ♀ (AM KS.30225*); 1 ♀ (AM KS.30228*); on roots hanging from roof of end chamber dark zone, 1 ♂ 1 imm. (AM KS.21603*).

Figures

Figure 15. Distribution maps for Australian filistatids (including records by Gray 1994). Above: triangles = Wandella barbarella, white circles = Wandella diamentina, stars = Wandella grayi, black circles = Wandella murrayensis, asterisks = Wandella orana, crosses = Wandella parnabyi, white squares = Wandella waldockae. Below: triangles = Wandella alinjarra, black circles = Wandella australiensis, asterisks = Wandella centralis, star = Wandella infernalis, cross = Wandella pallida, white circles = Wandella stuartensis, squares = Yardiella humphreysi.